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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoKalsbeek" data-source="post: 2672178" data-attributes="member: 401801">Most people here'll say, get a meter, see what works for you... I've tried a lot of different diets, some affected my thyroid, heart or kidneys, intestines, what have you... I also was on different medications, some worked for me, some made my life living hell. You try stuff, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I'm still dealing with kidney stones (my right kidney is a veritable gravel pit), because I am one of the relatively few people who'll make them while on a carnivorous diet. It worked wonderfully for my blood sugars, cholesterol and emotional well-being, but it also landed me in hospital a few times, and I never leave home now without oxycodone, just in case one of the stones stirs when I'm out and about and colic prevents me from walking. For a lot of people though, that diet works like a charm, and I'll not advise against it unless there are other conditions/genetics at play that can have the effects a half year of doing it had in me, for instance. You don't know unless you try whatever you feel comfortable trying, and get regular blood testing (which everyone here did before C19 threw a wrench in and testing became a bit haphazard here and there... I'm back to once or twice a year now though, myself). I get my HbA1c, liver function, vitamins, cholesterol etc tested, on top of my own regular finger pricks at home. This is what works for me. Doesn't mean it'll work for you. And yes, I throw the Nutritional Thingy around, because it's a place to start when you're just diagnosed and scared... I remember not daring to eat because it felt like everything was poison, and everything I was told was healthy, made my BS go up into the twenties... It's a place to start, but it also states to test. Test. Test. To do further research, and to find what works. We're all different, with different needs, different lifestyles and rhythms... And sometimes choices need to be made, like when I need a jab of steroids in a joint or something, and it'll up my bloods for a week or two. But those are choices I make. And no-one here'll tell me off for doing it, if my hip or shoulder acts up. We're not a blinkered cult, and while there will always be people who are more adamant on some ways of dealing with diabetes than others (or any other condition, in any other forum or facebook group or whatever, worldwide), you are always the one to make a choice on what you want to do with your own body. We can be a bit enthusiastic, but we're not millitant, I don't think. I hope not, anyway.  We offer handholds. Advice. Make suggestions. What you do with them is entirely up to you, because quite simply, what works for one, won't for another. Good luck,Jo</blockquote>

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